st: AW: Problem with excluded observations with -ginidesc-

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So -ginidesc- is obtained from ssc via -ssc inst ginidesc-.
The results with an -if- qualifier present are indeed strange. In the
absence of a fix, one can -preserve-/-restore- and -drop- to get around the
problem:
*************
sysuse auto, clear
ginidesc gear_ratio if rep78!=3, by(rep78)
preserve
drop if rep78==3
ginidesc gear_ratio, by(rep78)
restore
*************
HTH
Martin
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Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. September 2010 16:19
An: Statalist; ieeracba@satlink.com; Amanda Hoffman
Betreff: st: Problem with excluded observations with -ginidesc-
Hi all.
I've been using -ginidesc- to develop inequality indices of
school-level measures for several districts in the U.S. My goal is to
be able to chart them longitudinally to see if enrollment policies
impacted the mixes of students (e.g., those eligible for free and
reduced-price meals (FRL)).
In 2003, one of the states did not report FRL data, so I wrote in a
statement to exclude those observations for that year:
. ginidesc Pfrl03 if DistID~=3700720, by(DistID)
Gini Coefficient by subgroups
of DistID
----------------------
K | Gini_k
----------+-----------
625690 | 0.337
1201710 | 0.225
3700720 | 0.274
----------------------
Stored in matrix
As you can see, even though I was excluding District 3700720, ginidesc
still reported results for it. Also, the numbers for the other
districts were way out of line with the years before and after 2003.
So since -ginidesc- calls -ineqdeco-, I then ran that to compute the
gini indices, which produced a table that makes more sense:
. ineqdeco Pfrl03 if DistID~=3700720, by(DistID)
Subgroup indices: GE_k(a) and Gini_k
----------------------------------------------------------------------
DistID | GE(-1) GE(0) GE(1) GE(2) Gini
----------+-----------------------------------------------------------
625690 | 0.82561 0.24858 0.15316 0.14355 0.27361
1201710 | 0.32468 0.21598 0.18285 0.18375 0.33745
2503270 | 0.09620 0.08651 0.08126 0.07955 0.22489
3700720 |
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The Gini coefficients are consistent with those in the other years,
and 3700720 is excluded.
Anyone using -ginidesc- with subgroups, especially when there are
cases that are being excluded, should carefully check their results
against -ineqdeco-.
--
Joe McCrary
Senior Research Associate
WestEd-Atlanta
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